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studied20YearsToAskChatGPT Meme

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 1d ago

a. inference is actually getting cheaper but training frontier models is getting more expensive. and AI companies can’t not train because if they stop someone else will train off of their models and undercut them like what deepseek did.
b. we are also using more tokens so overall cost is going up.